Wake at Three Months

Well everyone said if I could make it until three months that life would get so much better and I have definitely seen a difference. He never falls asleep when eating anymore which is AWESOME and has gotten a lot faster at eating which is nice. It takes him anywhere from ten minutes to about a half hour depending on the time but that's still a major improvement. He didn't have a doctors appointment this month so I did my own measurements and percentiles since I bought a baby scale and am obsessed with making sure that he's gaining weight since he didn't the first month. He weighs 12 lb and 5 ounces which is 12th percentile and is 25 inches long which is 80th percentile. So he's still tall and skinny but he's definitely growing and filling out. This month he:

Rolls from his front to his back pretty consistently but forgets some days.

Learned how to make noises with his lips and slobbers everywhere.

Has taking a liking to sucking his index finger.

Loves to be propped up on the couch but still isn't quite holding his head up on his own although he's really close.

Sleeps from about 10pm to 6:30am usually waking up once but sometimes twice (I'm afraid I trained him to do that).

Takes six, one hour naps daily.

Wears size 1 diapers and his days away from not fitting in 3-6 month clothing anymore because of his height.

Is so dang smiley in the morning and when he eats. He will stop mid feeding, pull off, look at me and just smile his little heart out like it's party time ha.

Has become really into playing with his own hands and feet.

Loves to go running in the stroller.

Has gotten a little better at keeping the bink in.

Takes about six naps a day for an hour long and eats every 2.5 hours during the day.

Here are the pictures for this month:

Nate thought t was super cool that he did this since this sign apparently means something in Tagalog.

He just put his little hand up there by his face and chilled. It was too cute not to snap pic ha.

No one has met Wake yet besides my mom, Imari, and Cort. Imari and Cortney are living in Indianna for the summer for their husband's work and they were nice enough to come and spend the day with us. I wish I would have gotten pictures of our day but we ate our favorite bbq at Famous Dave's, went to Churchill Downs and watched three horse races in which Cort's horse always won, then went out for ice cream and It was way fun!

Selfies with dad haha.

Post bath time.

Wake's blessing day. Nate did a good job but it was surprisingly short and sweet ha.

He has started to LOVE sitting up on the couch and thinks he's so big. Too bad I can't catch a smile from him once he sees the iPad and gets mezmerized by it.

He loves helping me with laundry lol. I always dump it on him before I fold it and he thinks it's awesome.

Another night of watching basketball. Poor kid will be forced into loving it whether he likes it or not haha.

This is what happens when Nàte watches him lol. Jk, I actually invented this setup. He is really taking after Bry and Brew and loving Curious George.

 Had to take a screen shot of this. We FaceTime Auntie A and Brew about twice a day and I think it's a 

Lifesaver for both of us. This picture sums up our day well. Brew and Ays outside eating Popsicles and Wake and I holed up inside lol.

He is getting so fun and I have high hopes for month three!

Wake at two months

Oh how would I describe this little one at two months? LAZY!  I never in a million years thought having a sleepy child would kill me. It is the bane of my existence to try and get him to eat because he would rather sleep his life away. He was 10 lbs and 3 ounces (7th percentile) for weight, 23 .5 inches (74th percentile) for height, and his head circumference was 38.7 cm (36th percentile) at his appointment. The doctor acted like he was fine since he looked over Nate and I an decided that we were small ha but I have been a little distraught  that he is apparently skinny. But I'll continue our 8 feedings a day with pumped supplementation (kind of random amounts at random times but usually an ounce after most feedings) and hope he gains weight still. I have been thinking that pumping and giving him a bottle was awesome because I could force him to eat whether he was awake enough or not but it has backfired a little and he gets frustrated sometimes when he nurses because he expects it to be easy like a bottle (seriously so lazy). Anyway, I'm just trying to figure him out day by day. He has lots of wet and dirty diapers and is alert and happy when he is awake so I know he's fine but hopefully month three is significantly easier since I hear that it is. He doesn't really have a schedule yet but goes to sleep around 11 pm and then I'll wake him up twice before about 8:30 am. Sometimes he wakes up on his own and just sits there and grunts and if I ignore it (which is tempting) he'll basically always go back to sleep but it doesn't do me any favors to ignore him since getting in 8 feedings in a 24 hour period is so hard to do since he takes about an hour to eat (people can't believe I wake my baby up at night still). But on the upside I do think he is the cutest person ever (lucky for him ha) and he is so pleasant anytime we're at a restraunt or church that I try to cut him a little slack lol.

He started smiling around week 6 and has even giggled (I think accidentally and in his sleep but I love it when he does it). 

Rolled from his belly to his back twice in a row two days after his two month mark which was probably a fluke but he did do it twice ha (hates tummy time that much).

Is constantly sticking his hands in His eyes.

Has started to love sucking on his fists.

Wears size 0-3 month clothes and newborn diapers.

Doesn't smile during bath time but doesn't cry anymore either.

Doesn't let me hold him in burping position very long before he wiggles himself down to a horizontal position so he can be more comfy (lol cracks me up, so dang lazy).

Still struggles with the bink so naps are a little bit of a pain since I don't feed him to sleep during the day.

Sticks, for the most part, to the basic schedule of eating, having awake time during the day, and then going down for a nap.

Here is a picture overload...

First time at church and yes, I really wish the photographer would have made sure my garments weren't showing but what do you do....

Even though he's not supposed to break the swaddle, it's cute when he does.

The face of a boy who just peed all over everything in th vicinity. 

Chillaxin...

What he looks like when I try to wake him up the many times he falls asleep eating.

The many expressions of wake...

Tummy time lazy style...

Watching dad's softball game.

Me trying to catch a smile from him.

Snoozin' during story time.

Cheesin' it up.

Figured out how to grab it.

We love our little Wakey boy...

Wake at One Month

'So everyone said time flies with a baby but I'm here to tell you that it does not ha. Don't get me wrong Wake is such a pleasant little dude but sitting around nursing him all day makes time stand still. He is such a nice boy though. He has never really cried hard and anytime he lets out a little cry I can pretty much immediately fix it by letting him eat, changing him, or putting him to sleep. He is such a sleepy little thing (gets that from me). I have pretty much woken him up to eat at night almost every time he has eaten and it is such a shame to wake up a sleeping baby. I keep saying that he would happily and silently die in his sleep of starvation if I'd let him. It takes a good hour for him to nurse because I constantly have to take him off me to wake him up by rubbing him, laying him on the ground, and even pouring a little cold water on his feet (that only happened once, don't call social services on me haha). So since he was taking so long to eat and he was so sleepy and having the right amount of wet and dirty diapers a day I was only getting in 6 or 7 feeding in a 24 hour period. Lactation had told me once he was having the right amount of diapers a day that I was fine to let him sleep for as long as he wanted at night. Well, I still didn't feel good about that so I ended up waking him up once a night to feed him anyway and really, I thought life was going pretty well but when I took him in for his one month appointment I found out he still weighed 8.2 lbs which was his birth weight and put him in the 8th percentile for weight. He was 22.5 inches long (90th percentile) and his head circumference was 427.7 centimeters (100th percentile). Anyway, I was super distraught he hadn't gained weight so they suggested that I supplement him with formula, I told them no and that I would supplement with pumped breast milk and the doctor was fine with that and told me to come back about two and a half days later to check his weight. So after adding two extra feedings in a 24 hour period and giving him an extra ounce of milk after each feeding in a bottle I came back for his appointment and he had gained two ounces. They told me to keep doing what I was doing and to come in to check his weight in a week. So since then that's the process I've been following. It takes him about an hour to eat, I pump immediately after he eats then again a half hour after he eats and then start his next feeding two and a hard hours after the start of the previous feeding so, needless to say, I'm exhausted. I feel like the only thing I do is feed him and pump and it's been really hard to fit in anything else. Although. I did get to go on my first run since delivering 4 weeks and 5 days post partum. I ran 3 miles just to test the waters and felt great and it didn't increase my bleeding so at exactly 5 weeks I ran 4 miles again (this is for my own record so I know when I feel good about running again the next time around) so I am totally out of the woods as far as my own recovery goes and it feels awesome. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy running was again. I was afraid that since I had to wait so long that it would be hard but it wasn't and it was so nice to get out again, it is seriously my cure all. Anyway, back to Wake... At one month he:

Has been able to roll onto his side since he was a week old.

Moves his head really well from side to side and has a really strong neck I feel like

Gets the hiccups all the freaking time...

Fights he pacifier big time, we force it on him every nap because I've been trying not to feed him to sleep during the day but he spits it out so who knows if he'll ever like it...

Goes to sleep AWESOME at night. I wake him up, feed him, burp him for a couple minutes, lay him back down in the pack 'n play by our bed, and he goes right down. Nate hasn't been bothered with him at all which is nice because he needs to sleep for school.

Hated baths and his swing at first but has recently started liking both.

Grunts all the time and has for awhile, that's usually how I find out he's awake because he will grunt or I'll just happen upon him pleasantly just staring at a light and being quiet :)

Is the laziest eater ever and has to be woken up constantly during feedings.

Has never screamed bloody murder (he is probably too weak to cry because he wasn't gaining weight) hopefully he gets more energy soon.

Loves story time and watching Baby Einstein

Is so pleasant and nice...

Here are some pictures of his first month...

First time in his car seat, which he usually doesn't like at first.

Snoozing on the boppy, I never used it to nurse but it's good for story time.

After peeing all over Nate for the first time (we have had several incidents with this) haha.

After his first bath...

A little happier after drying off :)

Loves to stretch, it's actually our favorite thing he does (clearly he needs to get more exciting lol)

Hangin' with dad...

Some of his newborn pictures

So flaccid ha

First stroller ride, and kinda hates it...

Wake and grandma Mimi when she came to help us for a week, thanks mom!

His little sleep sack they gave us at the hospital and it has saved our lives. He hates to be swaddled until he figures out he loves it lol.

Before the Cards game, they won!

Hangin' out...

Crashed...

So tired...you'd think he had been the one up with him all night or something ;)

Crazy face

This is how he naps so we can keep he binky in his mouth...

Our first outing to the walking bridge to Indiana. He cried half way across so we didn't get to go the whole way but it was nice to get out.

The only way I've been able to nap during the day is by sleeping next to him on the floor and holding his binky in until he falls asleep. I don't dare nap when he sleeps on the couch since I'm afraid he'll suffocate so this is the alternative.

These last two pictures are how I will compare his size at each new month mark.